Veronica Coptis

mom, wife, Senior Advisor @taprootearth, activist, hiker, organizer, living in rural America (tweets are my own)

[CoalfieldJustice @CoalfldJustice]

- Fire is "under control with just a few hotspots now"
- No injuries reported, all employees accounted for
- Building owned by OMNIS, houses a "frother" refinery that turns coal waste slurry into fertilizer and other chemicals
- Diesel & other hazardous chems stored in building

[CoalfieldJustice @CoalfldJustice]

🚨🔥 HUGE FIRE at the nation's largest coal plant right now. A building storing diesel and other unknown chemicals at the Bailey Prep Plant in West Finley, PA caught fire early this morning and has released a massive plume of particulate matter and god knows what else.

[Veronica Coptis @vcoptis]

@zachshrewsbury Let’s get Zach in the senate to fight for West Virginia and all people struggling economically in this country!

[Shrewsbury for WV @zachshrewsbury]

My name is Zach Shrewsbury. I am a lifelong West Virginian. Like so many here in West Virginia I have experienced struggle, and I have seen heartbreak.

Now, I'm running to replace Joe Manchin and keep West Virginia's Senate seat blue. Join me: https://t.co/rXsh1kBXfM

[Veronica Coptis @vcoptis]

@Shalennial You going to give the same money to fix the water in new Freeport https://t.co/VdIj9T6MM4

[Quinn Glabicki @QuinnGlabicki]

NEW: Joint Pitt, state studies find link between proximity to fracking and increased cancer rates, asthma attacks, low birth weight.
https://t.co/HUPhRGcQzr

[Veronica Coptis @vcoptis]

Why are elected officials from @PaHouseDems @PaSenateDems @PAHouseGOP @PASenateGOP @GovernorShapiro not here at the results of health study. Is their corporate donations from fossil too influential. #Accountability #peopleoverprofit #EnvironmentalJustice

[PSR Pennsylvania @PSRPennsylvania]

📢 press release from @youghrvrkeeper @PSRPennsylvania @CoalfldJustice & @FracTracker in response to the public meeting held by the #PA DOH & the University of Pitt School of Public Health on the findings of the recently released #PA Health & Environment Studies
🔗 in bio

[Veronica Coptis @vcoptis]

The cost of regulating more and increasing setbacks, closing the haz waste loophole is likely a difference of billions to millions of profits. What even is that difference to parents still making 7.25 for minimum wage and bad healthcare trying to care for kids with cancer

[Veronica Coptis @vcoptis]

At public meeting for health study results commissioned by @PAHealthDept on fracking and kids within 1 mile have a higher risk. The majority of kids in Greene county and Washington county are in that range. How much profits are worth our kids health? #peopleoverprofits #maddfacts

[Veronica Coptis @vcoptis]

The cost of regulating more and increasing setbacks, closing the haz waste loophole is likely a difference of billions to millions of profits. What even is that difference to parents still making 7.25 for minimum wage and bad healthcare trying to care for kids with cancer

[CoalfieldJustice @CoalfldJustice]

"Researchers found that children who lived within 1 mi. of a well had 5-7x the chance of developing lymphoma... That equates to 60 to 84 lymphoma cases per million children living near wells, versus 12 per million among kids living farther away."
https://t.co/EgKBAAGIaT

[CoalfieldJustice @CoalfldJustice]

Janice Blanock, whose son Luke died of Ewing sarcoma, asks "Why in the hell not [include radium isotopes in the study]?" The researchers say there is no way to do so retroactively.